Other tasks carried out by the team this season included conservation work on the murals of the basilica on site…
Measuring more than 16 metres long, the papyrus was discovered in May 2022 at Saqqara…
Finds included canopic jar stoppers, cartonnage fragments, and several woven baskets.…
Among the Welsh finds declared treasure was a 15th-century gold ring belonging to the Bronington Hoard.…
Many of the amulets are made of gold, including a golden tongue inside the mouth…
A recent study aimed to determine whether stone axes and adzes – common tools during the Neolithic – were also used as weapons.…
Researchers suggest that this could have been some kind of sexual implement, something that is rarely considered among archaeological artefacts…
‘It looks like cattle, goats, and gazelles were brought to the site, potentially slaughtered there and then presented to what is probably a stone representation of an unknown deity.'…
As most cressets from Britain do not have any evidence of residue on them, it had previously been thought that they may have been used to hold ceramic lamps…
This January, conservation of the roughly 2,500 timbers recovered from the wreck was completed – a process that took 14 years…
The chamber is believed to have been built in the 2nd century AD and would have been semi-subterranean, with brightly painted stone walls and a concrete floor.…
Launched in 1917, she saw a brief period of service during the final year of the war, and was responsible for sinking the German U-B…
The artefact was found at Bar Hill, approximately four miles north-west of Cambridge, and is believed to date to the Iron Age (c.750 BC-AD 43).…
The vase was found in a grave, located outside Roman Colchester, having been reused as a cremation urn.…
Evidence of a possible prehistoric ring ditch was also identified at the site…
The site of Hala Sultan Tekke, named after a nearby mosque, flourished for around 500 years as a lively trading hub.…
Among the objects on show are the pipes from the cathedral’s great organ and a stained-glass panel from the cloister of the sacristy…
The assemblage of more than 3,000 elephant bones was discovered in 125,000-year-old lake deposits at the site of Neumark-Nord, in central Germany.…
The secret of the ancient material’s durability has intrigued researchers for decades, but a new study led by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have found the key.…
The recently discovered tavern, dating to c.2,700 BC, consisted of an open-air public eating area and a kitchen…